Specification of William Edward Gedge : smoke-consuming fire-place.

  • Gedge, William Edward.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of William Edward Gedge : smoke-consuming fire-place. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1868, 24th March. N° 990. Smoke-ccnsnming Fire-place, LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of “ An- Improved Smoke-consuming Fire-place or Furnace.”—A communi¬ cation from abroad by Ernest Henry, of Lisieux (Calvados), France. Sealed the 21st August 1868, and dated the 24th March 1868. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th March 1868. I, William Edward Gedge of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of 5 No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “An Improved Smoke-consuming Fire-place or Furnace,” a communication to me from abroad by Ernest Henry, of Lisieux (Calvados), France, to be as follows:— 10 This smoke-consuming fire-place is based on the well-known prin¬ ciple of passing the products of combustion of the black coal through the layer of red or live coal. The fire-place is fed in the ordinary manner, that is to say, black coal on red, but the direction of the